Shinyitis Support Group

[Old Greybeard]

I finally let in the pregnant cat I've been feeding for a few weeks. She's already picked her nesting spot in my closet. Should be an entertaining winter.

@Letitia, that says more about you than any character reference ever will. Cat adopting human, fair enough. Pregnant cat adopting human OTOH ...

I never really got animals or pets until the family cat got pregnant. Sure they are great fun, good to have around and superb companions. But I never truly understood the bond between animals and humans until Sooty was pregnant. She was struggling with the last kitten, and I helped her give birth.

I swear that cat looked into my very soul and said thank you.

You are honoured, and rightly so .

 

[Old Greybeard]

@oldgreybeard I'm sorry for your loss I won't buy any other coffee maker ever. 3 years is excellent service, now I'm on the search of the repairable pump, you don't throw them away. I'll let you know if I find one!
Me, I love the Inbox v3. It's an unexpensive, very trustworthy, dna squonker. People LOVE it!
$69.92 Authentic HCigar VT Inbox V3 75W TC VW APV Box Mod - 1-75W / 200-600'F(100-300'C) / 1*18650 / built-in 7ml Squonk Bottle at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping

How much is shipping to BA? I can cannibalise mine .... Mind you, I not sure exactly what seals have gone on mine, if it is in the pump itself it wouldn't be much use.

 

[stols001]

Man many of those objects... I would not recognize as coffee makers. I mean to be fair I have a Kitchen Aid stand mixer, but my mom bought it for me.

She forgot I can cook but not bake. So it is really my machine of shame, that and the dang bread maker the husband makes stuff in all the time.

I finally had to accept my lack of prowess in that arena. I buy my bread from the store, like all the plebes and seriously the husband "taught" me over many days and then "observed me" and stated I did ALL correctly in the correct order (there's some wet/dry/weird mix of how you have to insert stuff) and I STILL BLIGHTED IT.

The mixer comes in handy... For the husband. LOL.
Anna

 

[Susaz]

How much is shipping to BA? I can cannibalise mine .... Mind you, I not sure exactly what seals have gone on mine, if it is in the pump itself it wouldn't be much use.

Those are imported from Europe, maybe you'll be able to get one there. Since DeLonghi is almost everywhere (the god of espresso!) but I need to know from my repairperson exactly the part number and if it fits. Since it's so tight, it might not fit. MIND YOU, if the boiler burns there's no replacement, but there are replacements for everything, plus retrofits for the steam arm so that you can make real "wet paint" milk frothing.

 

[AngeNZ]

I'm happy to report a new shiny is now in my home. My wife's girlfriend who lives 2 blocks from us was leaving her house to walk her dogs heard a kitten crying in her bushes and knowing how sad we have been since our cat passed away recently she called to she if we wanted a 3-4 month old kitten. After the vet gave him a clean bill of health we adopted him from the streets and could not have made a better choice. He is gentle, loving,and has a great temperament. This is our new shiny Chance, we named him that because he was found by chance.

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Love your new shiny Bob

 

[Old Greybeard]

She forgot I can cook but not bake. So it is really my machine of shame, that and the dang bread maker the husband makes stuff in all the time.

I'm convinced there are some things in life we are destined not to do. Baking is one of them for me. My last loaf was used as structural support for a local motorway ...

I have given up trying, and was thinking of buying a bread maker at one point. The rest of the family enjoys commercial bread and I can't convince them otherwise so I don't intend to humiliate myself further ...

 

[Hightech Redneck]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Need to go off browsing and hunting now ...



No dice I'm afraid, even tried squeezing them with insulated tweezers. I might do a post mortem and check the physical resistance. I suspect I might have over-tightened one of the Allen screws a bit too much and it it is not making a decent connection.



Am pretty .... about battery safety, am used to working with very high voltages and currents etc. Lost my eyebrows once due to a fellow work colleague who was a complete "$$:#~£. Being flash blinded for 20 minutes is a pretty scary experience.



@Susaz, how could you do this to me? In my mounting pile of obsolete and broken kit due to go to recycling is my old coffee machine [pictured], which served me well as you rightly guessed for 3 years. Oh, it was shiny once, and faithfully served me coffee day in day out until the internals would espresso no more. I am now laden with guilt on three fronts, a] I could do nothing for my faithful friend b] I replaced it with a cheaper model and c] That I have to go to the dump. Soon.



I am 85% convinced that a Squonker is the way to go, mainly down to price. In an ideal world there would be a dual use device, but if there is I can tell it would be expensive . I don't have any fears about electrical safety, I'm more concerned about the following:

• Price point [I am spending my wife's money ]
• Practicality. Ideally I want to take it out and about, and it will suffer as a consequence.
• Quality. Good build is more important than gizmos, and preferably something that doesn't look like it hit every branch on the ugly tree on the way down [which is why I didn't buy a Smok Mag].
• If it takes 18650's or 21750's batteries great. Built in, it would have to have a lot of benefits to convince me, as the device would have a maximum of a 3 year life.

Well the pulse is cheap and alot use it as a beater.
I may say the recurve squonk mod. I have been carrying mine to work daily and the rubberized paint looks new. Has some weight, kinda like brass weight but not sure.
Its unregulated so nothing to fidget with. Basically it's a mech with safety. Wont fire if there's a short and cuts off before batt is too low. Oh and takes 21700 down to 18650.

 

[Eskie]

If you ever come to Germany - don't drink the coffee. Here they apparently like bitter and acidic, just disgusting and it gives you heartache. A cow's backside makes better coffee.

Must be where Starbucks got its bean roasting method from.

 

[Fidola13]

Did they ask for picture id?

I used them 3 weeks ago and they didn’t ask for an id.

 

[Fidola13]

Good morning shinies. Oh, things to do today, but not that much. Woke up early due to emotional hangover last night, after dealing with the kiddos last night. Stupendous errors were made (not by me!) but by others involved in the situation, like tornado's friend accidentally texting a text TO the tornado meant for the tornado's husband. I talked to the tornado and while my "this is borderline personality dx" pinging alarm had been going off for some time, it was confirmed. Then my sis told me the husband was in some unappealing to me FIELD so THEN I reamed out my sis kinda because the tornado was doing odd things like sending me screenshots of her texts and well.... I was like, um, this would have been useful information, sis. I guess she plays around with it so much it's not like a thing to her... Only it is.

Also, I'm sorry but I only deal with BPD for PAY, and most certainly not long distance, even with the capacity of a friend not ANYTHING else but also CERTAINLY not without my malpractice active. No thanks.

So then the husband texted at dinner asking if I could talk to the tornado. I texted back, Certainly but I need to know what tornado would like to talk about, I need you to inform tornado that I have spoken to you today in the capacity of supporting her well being, and finally, I would like you to be aware that I am in no position, given where I am located and in what capacity I am functioning to provide the type of assistance tornado requires, although I am happy to help her in discussing her needs and assisting her in locating the care she needs."

Tornado was really obnoxious yesterday afternoon and is also a lawyer, I felt bad doing it but I knew what to do. Oddly enough, I did not receive a phone call. Because, I'm sorry tornado I've been dealing with Borderline PD for 17 years, and you act the way you did yesterday, that is what you get. Boundaries.

I really just want to block the lot of them but I can't I also need those texts. Not that I did anything wrong, but meh. My sister, more amusingly wants to involuntary the lot of them.

Anna

Sounds stressful. My niece has BPD and is a nightmare most of the time. Makes me grateful I just have bipolar.

 

[Fidola13]

Also, I opened my DHL package, it does contain two replacement screens which I intend to send off today, to someone who wants them. But I also gave my new Charon Mini to the HUSBAND.

Don't ask me why I did it, I thought he might find a new mod fun, and I might give him a rebuildable and teach him to use it. LOL, I am a glutton for punishment. Apparently, there is something built in to the Smoant mods that says, "Anna, give this to your husband," or something because that's what happened to my first Smoant Cylon. I gave it to him after I tried it and loved it, (also going what is wrong with me) only the fact that I accidentally ordered two is the reason I have one at all.

Also turning up the brightness seems to have permanently fixed it, I'm giving away the screens because a person has been TRYING to BUY them and failing and also, let's face it if my screen ever dies, NO I will not be trying to fix it... Ever.

Anna

So did Smoant send you new screens and the Charon mini because of the faulty Cylon screen?

 

[Letitia]

So I think I'll name her Willow though at the moment she's not slim and willowy. Poor cat, I think she wants me to move into the closet with her. So far no cat fights have ensued, just some halfhearted hissing in passing. Think my Em may be a touch miffed.

 

[Fidola13]

I finally let in the pregnant cat I've been feeding for a few weeks. She's already picked her nesting spot in my closet. Should be an entertaining winter.

I need pics!!

 

[Letitia]

I need pics!!

I am a classic closet slob; pics will have to wait until sometime next week when I'm home more. Hopefully she'll come out and join us. She is a dear and an excellent mouser. Kind of hated finding out I had closet mice though.

 

[Old Greybeard]

So I think I'll name her Willow though at the moment she's not slim and willowy.

What is with you guys tonight? First @Susaz unintentionally makes me feel bad about throwing out my coffee machine, and now you utter the name of my favourite cat of all time [I'm in trouble now] who met his end arguing with a car.

You folks want me to give up smoking or what .

 

[Letitia]

What is with you guys tonight? First @Susaz unintentionally makes me feel bad about throwing out my coffee machine, and now you utter the name of my favourite cat of all time [I'm in trouble now] who met his end arguing with a car.

You folks want me to give up smoking or what .

Apologies luv. I'll let you name the kitten of your choice.

 

[stols001]

So did Smoant send you new screens and the Charon mini because of the faulty Cylon screen?

Yes after an epic battle of emails, they did. The wanted to JUST send me the screens which weigh about a feather each for 10 dollars but I pointed out the shipping was STEEP plus their argument was "We can't honor a FT warranty they undersell us," and I was like, you know, the screens are a stopgap measure at best, and ALSO, do you understand the concept of a MANUFACTURER'S warranty, I mean I could buy a dishwasher from Sears and pay top dollar, or Walmart and pay little, but in neither case does
the COST of the sale affect the durability of the ITEM and also I think your problem is with Fasttech, not with ME because somehow I was able to purchase one, and all armed up with the stamp of authenticity card, all of which I have SENT you, so really, you could STOP SELLING YOUR MODS TO FASTTCH and solve that problem, since you actually MADE and sold the mod, but it would be nice if you stopped trying to tell me they are not "authorized" sellers, since clearly they are and ALSO I have been on your FB page and seen that you have authorized OTHER FT warranties.

Then there was silence for a while.... Then they sent me the screens and the Charon mini and I don't know why but apparently they won't even SELL the screens to some folks who are like, WANTING TO ACTUALLY PAY FOR THEM BUT NO.

The true irony of this all is it only STARTED when I turned down my brightness but it was going so fast I was fairly certain I had HOURS left with my Cylon but NO, like I was like , "Well better DO something while I still can and RISK it than just sort of wait," and it was like way better and over the days, even the clock is functioning totally normally. I don't know how long it is going to last but man, I even FLUNG IT across my bedroom into my guitar the other morning and lost if for most of the day (I was asleep, I went back to sleep) and lo and behold, like, it's totally fine. It could give me years of service to come, IDK. But I was kind of like, well, they saw the pics on low they acknowledged the problem but that may be partially why I gave it to the husband. Etc. Guilt.

Don't ask me I also break watches simply by wearing them and like, I swear that is all I do. I have listened to enough Conspiracy, I mean Late nite radio to start wondering if I'm extra magnetic (only I get lost a lot) or maybe abducted by aliens which I do not remember happening and if it DID happen, well, I fervently hope I never remember because it sounds HORRID. LOL.

Anna

 

[chanelvaps]

Yeah, basically half a mug of Army coffee.
For me, it's more about the enjoyment rather than the caffeine intake.
I drink coffee most of the day, and don't want my boss to think I'm developing Parkinson's.

Not crazy about 3ozs either. I like a full 8oz cups. 2-3 in the morning and the one I really love, late afternoon cup, 4pm-5pm ish. Full cup, 8ozs. Just one.Not so much looking for the caffeine, I want some but not mega amounts.

 

[chanelvaps]

I'm happy to report a new shiny is now in my home. My wife's girlfriend who lives 2 blocks from us was leaving her house to walk her dogs heard a kitten crying in her bushes and knowing how sad we have been since our cat passed away recently she called to she if we wanted a 3-4 month old kitten. After the vet gave him a clean bill of health we adopted him from the streets and could not have made a better choice. He is gentle, loving,and has a great temperament. This is our new shiny Chance, we named him that because he was found by chance.

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best kind of new toy!

 

[Old Greybeard]

Apologies luv. I'll let you name the kitten of your choice.

No worries @Letitia I was only joshing ... I'm not ashamed to admit I did cry when we lost that cat. It used to follow my daughter to primary school, and was always waiting for me on the gatepost when I came home from work. There was something extra special about him.

Saying that, I named my first DIY brew after you. Hey, it was you who gave me the recipe .